businessinsider.com Archives - 13 February 2013, Wednesday

BAE Systems BAE Taranis (click to expand) Britain's Royal Air Force has been using Tornado jets as bombers for decades and is already building a fleet of new Typhoons, but BAE hopes to supplement those forces with a powerful new drone. The Taranis, named for the Celtic god of thunder ...

Either associates at a law firm's Singapore office have been seriously slacking off, or the firm's head partner is taking micro-managing to a whole new level. All associates at Hogan Lovells' Singapore offices are expected to be at their desks promptly by 9:15 a.m. or suffer the conse...

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Singapore-based commodity firm Olam, is near and dear to the Singaporean government's heart. Temasek, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, just upped its stake in the company to 18% this week. It's an indication of what the government, controlled by the unyielding Lee family, is willing...

The Air Jordan Bred XI was released today, and people are going mad for a chance to own them. Alabama police needed to break up a near-riot at a Huntsville store when a crowd of about 100 people became unruly when they learned that wristbands were only going to be given to the first 3...

Cheng Xin See Also American Giant CEO Explains Why US Manufacturing Isn't Dead JCPenney Just Keeps Hiring Former Abercrombie Executives Here's What A Toys 'R' Us Catalog Looked Like In 1996 Jordi Constans is stepping down as CEO of Louis Vuitton , citing medical reasons. He joined the...

Ruby is inherently different from Java. The argument commonly made is that Java is an enterprise-grade language while Ruby is used for geeky-cool apps in social, mobile, and e-commerce that are designed to attract a big consumer base. The fact that Ruby applications are built to web-s...

Wikimedia Commons/ winestem Robert Parker Robert M. Parker, Jr., who is one of the world's most prominent wine critics, is selling a "substantial interest" in his bi-monthly publication, The Wine Advocate, to three Singapore-based investors, The Wall Street Journal's Lettie Teague rep...

I have said this before. The more I hear people laughing at, deriding, and dismissing something the more I think it is likely to be a big deal. I remember when the common refrain about Twitter was that nobody wants to know what someone had for lunch. Well maybe they do. And maybe Bitc...

I have said this before. The more I hear people laughing at, deriding, and dismissing something the more I think it is likely to be a big deal. I remember when the common refrain about Twitter was that nobody wants to know what someone had for lunch. Well maybe they do. And maybe Bitc...

Erratum Hugo Chávez announces that his cancer has returned Ed Miliband to wage war on George Osborne over benefit cuts Mario Monti to quit as Italian PM amid waning support for austerity policies Egypt: Mohamed Morsi cancels decree that gave him sweeping powers Ian McKellen: 'Gandalf ...

Nike unveiled the brand new Air Jordan XX8's yesterday, and the early reviews are terrible. The shoe, which will retail for $250 is February, has been called "super dumb," "awful," and "the ugliest sneakers I've ever seen" by sports bloggers. Sneaker fans were even less kind, taking t...

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AP Images See Also McDonald's Is Testing Some Fancy New Quarter Pounders There Has Been A Changing Of The Guard At Mango Bangladesh's Worst-Ever Factory Fire Kills More Than 120 People Billionaire heiress Tamara Ecclestone has a handbag collection valued at more than $1 million. Her f...

AP Images See Also McDonald's Is Testing Some Fancy New Quarter Pounders There Has Been A Changing Of The Guard At Mango Bangladesh's Worst-Ever Factory Fire Kills More Than 120 People Billionaire heiress Tamara Ecclestone has a handbag collection valued at more than $1 million. Her f...

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg ) -- Olam International Ltd. slumped the most in six months in Singapore trading after short-seller Carson Block questioned the agricultural commodity trader’s accounting methods. The share declined 7.5 percent to S$1.61 at the close, the lowest since May 16, while ...

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File The oldest son of Kim Jong-il, the late leader of North Korea, has reappeared in Singapore nearly one year after fleeing his home in Macau. Kim Jong-nam, 41, had been living a life of luxury in the former Portuguese enclave, but disappeared in January ...

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trader was allegedly caught on video threatening the lives of construction workers in an expletive filled rant outside his Singapore home last month, according to reports by The U.K.'s The Times and Asia's The Straits Times (h/t @finsansakrobat) Olivier Desbarres, formerly of Credit S...

New York Knicks guard JR Smith and his brother Chris recently met with SneakerWatch to give their opinions of LeBron James' new sneakers, the LeBron X . They began by analyzing the aesthetics of the shoe, but when the interviewer brought up the price of the shoes, Smith went off in hi...

The result is a super simple business model. My Bitcoin Bank would charge a very low monthly fee per Bitcoin deposited and nothing else other than pass alongs for any costs incurred in moving bitcoins in and out of the bank on behalf of our customers. We would not have any branches. W...

Continuing on with our series covering adventures in alternative currencies , many were quick to proclaim the death of Bitcoin , particularly following the June 2011 bursting of the Bitcoin bubble . For example, here is some doomsaying from the normally reliable Tyler Cowen; and for a...

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just released new photos of the LeBron X — the new LeBron James sneaker that sparked outrage last month when the WSJ reported it would cost $315. The standard version of the shoe will actually cost $180, and a souped-up version with Nike+ will cost $270. Nike is marketing the shoe wit...

In addition to Louis Vuitton, seven other luxury brands made it onto Interbrand's annual list of the world's most valuable brands. Most experienced major growth, and there were two newcomers to the list.

Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld turned heads when he sent this bizarre shoulder bag down the runway during this morning's show at Paris Fashion Week. It appears to be made of white quilted leather suspended between two black hula hoops. While there's no price on this look— and no official wor...